Category: The Magazine

San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral recently sponsored a gun buyback event in a San Francisco neighborhood with high incidents of gun violence

Can we, as a church, muster the effort to focus our energies on the important and not just the seemingly urgent?

How can we discern whether staying or going is Gods invitation to us?

Reflecting on the ordeal of the Thai soccer team trapped in a cave – this story resonates with so many people not because of the one-to-one shared experience we may have had, but because of a very symbolic shared experience between us and these boys.

Seven-year-old Kristina sat in front of me before the 11 am service recently, wearing her alb. I leaned forward and asked her if she knew that girls at one time were not allowed to be acolytes. She looked puzzled more than shocked. “Why not?” she asked.

Effective small church fundraising on four hours per week

Our journey out of bondage into freedom often makes us anxious.  As we move toward the Promised Land, we find that we have sometimes fallen in love with those things that hold us down and harm us.

We review Jon Sweeney’s biography of Phyllis Tickle. An authorized biography by a friend could result in a cloying hagiography, but Sweeney writes about Tickle honestly, flaws and all.

Sometimes our journey with Christ takes us into the wilderness

Ask yourself: “Does the Jesus I read about in scriptures and the Jesus with whom I commune in my prayer – did that Jesus speak passionately about me or us doing these things?  Is what we are doing on Jesus’ to-do list”?